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Richard A. Smith '46, chair of the General Cinema Corporation and a member of several University governing committees, has been appointed to the Harvard Corporation, the University announced yesterday...
...what is the difference between "celluloid cinema" and bigger television screens...
...There is every evidence that celluloid cinema is going to die. The new technology is leading away from it. The Japanese are throwing away the screen and projector and replacing it with large television screens. Much more information is purveyed in television. But one could almost foretaste the end of television even. The relation to painting is still important...
...Audience appreciation. Television has only vowels-a simple approach. It's not very sensitive to extremes of light and dark. Cinema handles it better. TV prefers close-ups, movement. Cinema is social-the audience must move towards it. TV is passive-selection is not important. 90% of the audience's concentration is on cinema screen. It's not much more than 50% for TV. For my films, the audience needs to pay attention... We need to develop a visual language, a combination of song dances, calligraphy, all contemporary languages...
...received vitriolic press for Prospero's Books. American critics called me obscurantist. People assume there's only one kind of cinema-Hollywood-with some kind of emotional rapport between audience and screen...